WEBVTT - Chase Elliott 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.319 is cut to it. Good do what good do? They's 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.880 getting down to do it? Good do it? We asked 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.120 the questions you always want to know, but no one 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:29.200 ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard him 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.680 about it? Then we're about to let you know. It's 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:45.600 all okay, shoot the way, that's your first Sorry, smitty smitty, smittye, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.240 what's going on with him? And Hey, how are you doing? 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.000 How's your weekend? It was pretty good. It wasn't as 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.800 good as yours, but it was pretty good. You went 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.600 up to the mounds with the wife and had a 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.680 little little little little boot time, little boot r R. Yeah, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.320 kid free, that's the that's the most important. Tell you 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.720 what a kid free are? And R makes another kid 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:07.160 on the way come that ain't that ain't happen in 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.039 my g How was your weekend? What'd you get into? Yeah? 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.800 I went down, you know, I just trying to with 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.240 everything going on. I'm still a little nervous hop on 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.920 the airplane. Yeah, just be honest. You don't call me 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.760 what you want. Uh, I called you something. I'd call 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.399 myself that because I'm not getting on just a little nervous. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.399 And so I went down, drove down the Kiowa and 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.800 and play some golf. Played a course it's called the 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.000 Ocean's Course is actually where um uh the I think 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.360 it's the Open US Open that that that's the best 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.319 part about me. I can go somewhere play means a 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.520 lot to somebody else. It's just a golf course. It's 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.240 just right. It's not just a golf course. It was 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.200 a time for me to just kind of unplug and 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.760 change the scenery. So when played this this course, the 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.520 Ocean Course in Kiowa, and had an unbelievable hattie. So 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.240 you have to do a caddy, have to have it 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.320 was walking man. And so, um, I'm a golf cart 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.480 dude myself. Yeah, you the only the only way, I 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.640 guess if it was bad weather or you have a disability, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.200 you do to do the golf card. And so we 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.400 walked and my caddy was Tyler. Tyler was fired. Tyler 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.400 was awesome. Helped me out end up shooting the eighty five, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:31.280 probably my best round ever. Just and but it's cool 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.320 about it. I'm a city boy. I ain't never seen 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.000 a gator walking across a fairway. I'm from the country. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.840 I ain't never seen a gator doing that. It was 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:47.239 it was casually strolling across the the golf off the green, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.400 kind of like seeing a squirrel on the side of 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.280 the road going up a tree. So he just mind 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.920 and this this is like a real live gator. It 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.480 was probably about ten ninet just strolling across. I got 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:06.440 videos your first reaction. I was like, oh look, I'm like, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.800 come on, man, like what we're supposed to do. It 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.919 was pretty bad. Like I wasn't I'm not gonna say 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.320 because he was far enough. I wasn't scared, because because 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.040 I can outrun him. Because I was gonna say, it 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.720 ain't every day that brothers just run up on an 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.359 alligator like that. Don't just happen every Let me rephrase it. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.920 You know why I wasn't scared, because all I had 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.360 to do was I'll run. Tyler asked, that's it, and 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:36.720 I was gonna get him something or Tyler, bless you, Tyler. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.760 Tyler got to go. He Tyler wasn't married because he 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.200 told me, but tell my wife that I love her 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.080 because Tyler, I have a shot the food, right, so 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.160 I hit um and then I hit you know, hid 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.800 into a few uh water hazards and hey we all 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.040 do we do gator chomping at the up at the 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.600 so you get into the water and you see the 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.440 gator come out of the water and it was like, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.240 oh okay, ball gone right. That was probably I heard 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.120 some bad shots, hed some good shots, but it was 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:16.400 literally that was when your ball went into a hazard 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.120 or and actually there there's no o b u huh 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.800 you your ball going too a little area. Some woods 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.240 chalked that up to the game because they were like 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.440 grass laid down so you can see where they were 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.919 going in. Man, it was it was interesting, bro. It 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.000 was definitely had a good time, but it was very 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.599 much um different kind of golf, but great course, man, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.320 great on the course. Though. I still can't get over that. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.159 I mean, I just can't imagine like I hit into 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.119 the bunker, I'll go into the bunk and then bam, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.359 that goes that goes a gator. Yeah, walked looked at me. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:57.599 What upset? What was popping home? Nothing? All right? Well, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.880 hey who is our g all right? Coming up on 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.640 the Cut to It podcast. We've got Chase Elliott, the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.520 son of NASCAR legend and Hall of Famer Bill Elliott. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.400 He's a two time most Popular Driver of the Year 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.960 and he won the All Star Race in July. Chase 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:25.039 Elliott appreciate y'all having me, absolutely absolutely so. Our first 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.320 segment we call it get iced Up, the random questions. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.080 There may be a follow up, may not be a 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.000 follow up, just depends on how we feel. Brother, So Smitty, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.719 when you're ready, give Chase the first question and get 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.640 iced up? Okay, Chase, are you ready to get iced up? 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:46.360 I guess I'm ready? However, Man, what color childhood bedroom? 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.120 What color was my childhood bedroom? Man, I don't remember 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.520 my childhood bedroom. Is it that bad? I mean that's 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.600 your childhood that's not arms? Yeah, I mean that's that's true. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.039 Uh Like it was red blue, like somewhere into into 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:08.120 the red and blue category, somewhere in there. Okay, I'm 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.359 not gonna I can't go a get your childhood colors. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.440 I mean no, I mean, I don't don't know how 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.080 a man could ever go against another person's childhood memories. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.960 You know, if you said it was if you said 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.800 it was like a nice rolls. Yeah. Like if it 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.760 was like like magenta, it might be a problem. Like 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.400 my bedroom was magenta at at five, we might have 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:40.200 an issue? Or do Brown? That is true, Dookie Brown, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.719 the uncle Luke Row. Okay, let's go. Let's move on. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.400 So I have heard word on the street. Is you 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:54.400 love Wedding Crashers? Big fan? Big? All right? Hit us 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.080 with one of your favorite lines from Wedding Crashers. Bang, go, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.000 favorite line from Wedding Crashes. That's like asking somebody to 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:13.280 pick one favorite song. Um, it's just pick a line. Okay. Uh, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.760 let's see that. There's a part where Vince Vaughan is 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:21.000 talking about what's what's the guy's name, the older father 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.920 in that in that movie, he's like a senator or something. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.480 This is your favorite movie, not mine, You've never talking about. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:33.040 You're talking about. I know he's given him a hard 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.880 time about his daughter, you know, and he tells him, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.240 you know, she's not just a notch in the old belt. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.040 He looks at him and he says, I don't even 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:45.800 wear a belt belt. I love that. What is something 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:51.720 interesting about you that most people do not know? I have? 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.000 I have become quite the video game fan, which a 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.160 lot of people might know that. But um, now, but 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.240 that's kind of a I've always played video games, but 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.920 since all this stuff has been going on, I have 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.200 I have really jumped in and probably played entirely too 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.880 much video games in the past six months. So I'll 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 go ahead and be honest on that. What's what are 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.040 some of those games that you have wasted countless hours on? 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:27.600 Countless hours? Yes, wasted is also a good a good word, um, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:33.840 call of duty, which I think is is yeah, absolutely 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.720 fun like video games are you know, you talk about 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.200 your childhood and stuff, like your parents just absolutely look 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.079 down on video games so bad as a kid, right, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.040 you know, like what you're doing waste your time? And 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.400 now I feel like it's funny because it seems like 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:57.000 the amount of people who play video games that AIDS 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.120 bracket is a much larger bracket of people than it 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.000 used to be. Like older guys, I feel like, are 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.360 into video games more so than than they used to be. So, um, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.320 I really enjoyed it. But been a lot of fun 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.920 and and yeah, a good way to stay at home, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.440 you know, and still get online and play with your 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.800 buddies and and hang out. So I've, I've that's been 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.080 a good outlet for me. If you had a magic wand, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.959 what would you happen? What would I make happen? How well? 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.679 How often can I use? It is your wand? Brother, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.000 I can't do I can't tell you what to do 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:44.199 what you want, it's my wand. Man, that's tough. Um 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.120 I feel like I I mean, there's a lot of 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.880 things that I feel like a person would do for 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:58.679 a wand, but you know, I might hold hold up 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.720 not do for the one you already have, the one 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.320 you can fix something because you don't about to go 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:11.080 down the path that I think was I'm getting uncomfortable. Yeah, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.959 I was gonna wait three years and then foul charge 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.959 and say I was not feeling very comfortable in this 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.679 kind uncomfortable today on this podcast. Um Man, that's that's tough. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.760 I I feel like, you know, how about make your 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.880 car faster? Yeah? Well, I think it would depend. I 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.960 mean that's what I'm saying. Like, if it's race day, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.079 absolutely we're going faster. So you know, if it's if 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.400 it's across country road trip, like I want to get 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:43.040 there now, I don't want to You went out, you 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.240 went down the path of what would I do for 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:50.440 a one already got it? No, no, no, I'm just 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.200 trying to think through what I do, you know, And 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.200 I feel like that's a that's a tough thing. I 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.280 feel like it's situational. I mean, if it's my one 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.040 and I get to keep it, which he sounded like 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.040 you just just you're just holding for a few hours. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.880 Oh well then I'm gonna I'm gonna gift myself more 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:17.960 wanes to do that. Can't do that? Why not wishes 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.560 exactly exactly. Well, let's move on. Then, let's move on. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.880 So you go by Chase, I do. How did your 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:32.600 folks come up with that nickname? That's a good question. Um, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:38.319 so my my godparents when I was little. Basically, I 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.520 guess after I was born. At least the story I got, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.440 I don't really remember it, but um the story I 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.439 got was that I was you know, my real name 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.280 is after my dad. I'm I'm just the second, um 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.800 William Elliott, the second. But she just didn't think. She 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.960 just didn't think I looked like a William. So I 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.320 ended up She's like, you know, he looks like Chase, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.640 And for whatever reason, that stuck, and I don't. I 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.480 don't know why, but that was a story I got 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.680 that could be complete bs um, but that's the story 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.680 I was told at one point in time. So I've 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.480 just kind of gone with that. At this point, we're 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.400 gonna talk it into reality. Okay, I like it. So 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:23.880 you're from Dawsonville, Georgia. Yeah, that's your hometown it is. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:31.480 Can you walk us down memory lane? What experience experiences 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:37.000 you had growing up in Dawsonville, Georgia. And I feel 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.000 like it's uh small town USA. I mean I feel like, uh, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.880 we've lived in in a couple of different actually a 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.560 few different towns around North Georgia, but pretty much lived 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.000 in North Georgia all my life minus minus a couple 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.080 of years. We um my, my dad wanted to move 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.480 to Colorado. There at one point when I was about 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.280 about nine, I guess nine or ten. We lived there 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.840 for two years. But outside of those two years, um, heck, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.480 we've we've kind of lived all around North Georgia, And 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.000 I feel like my childhood is kind of a combination 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.560 of a few different towns around here. Dawsonville is certainly 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.760 being one of them, and certainly where I live now 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.480 just small town in USA. How many stoplights in your hometown? 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.160 The original part of Dawsonville. There is no stoplight in town. None, 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.920 you have you might have a stop sign, I mean 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.600 you know, um, the red one. You have one of 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:40.520 those else would it be right? But yeah, a lot 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:47.480 of yielding. Let's stop. We'll see. Dawsonville has grown a 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.400 lot in Atlanta. Uh, those of you that have been 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.920 to Atlanta, Atlanta has just absolutely blown up to the 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.160 north side of the state. Um, and Dawsonville is like 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.480 the very north end of the highway that runs into Atlanta. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:08.320 Four is the is the road. And as as Atlanta 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.000 has expanded, the south side of Dawsonville has expanded. The 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.840 actual downtown part of the you know, in the city limits. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.760 You're not talking much. You're talking a stop sign and 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.720 a you know, and that's really about it. A couple 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.680 of restaurants and and a grocery store and and that's 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.040 all she wrote. But it's uh, it's ground a lot 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.720 for sure. Yeah. And there's something are you proud of, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.520 you know, looking at you know, obviously looking at your 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:46.280 dad's stuff, Elliott family, you know that Dawsonville is very 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.680 much connected to you. Guys, and so, how's your hometown 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:56.080 impacted and shaped you on your world views today? Well, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.840 you know, and that's a great question because I feel 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.400 everybody's views can vary based on where you grow up. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.760 And sometimes that's not you know, a person's it might 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.880 not be a person's choice, but it's it's what you 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:11.920 it's what you have, it's what you see, it's the 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.640 views you have put in front of you as a kid. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.880 Uh So, I think for me, it's a very um 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.040 you know, and in some ways when when you look 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.040 at it from like, hey, you know, I'm I'm from 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.280 North Georgia and it is small town, USA, I feel 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:32.520 like it is a very standard southern state town and 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.080 and on down the road. But I think what has 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.160 made my life a little more interesting. I feel like 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.320 I have been connected with a lot of different people 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.520 and a lot of different walks of life. Um from 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.200 you know, following my dad around as a kid, racing 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.880 and being able to travel the country now, and and 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.200 the things I was able to see growing up and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.920 see the fortune that some people have and the mis 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.480 fortunate to other people have. I feel like there's just 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.840 been a very wide variety of people that I've been 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.320 connected with UM, and I think a lot of that 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.840 is you know, obviously I was fortunate to be able 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.640 to see a lot of those things. But it certainly 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.320 makes you appreciate, I think, what you have a little more. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.520 And and um, I don't really know how else I 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.160 would have seen that had I not had the opportunities 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.640 to to branch out um and and see more, you know, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:33.000 from like I often think, you know, my I grew 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.520 up in a in a well off family, right, so 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.920 you could easily you know, go down the private school 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:45.240 route and and be kinda viewed as as that uh 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.880 in in some ways, but I don't think that tells 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.120 the full story of some people. And and because I 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.600 am a private school kid, um, of what you see 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.560 and what you do or what you don't appreciate. So yeah, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.280 I've just been lucky to see a lot of different 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.600 walks and and I feel like appreciate, I appreciate more 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.800 because of it. Because of your dad, you get a 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.960 lot of people that have their, uh their point of 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.240 view of you. But also as I was digging through 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.040 the research and just kind of looking and trying to 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.480 figure out, you know, what is something that's really intriguing. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.760 And the one thing that keeps coming back to me, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:31.919 which is knowing who your dad is, Bill Elliott, and 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.040 then you're twenty four years old, you're doing your thing 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:40.960 in NASCAR. If you can compare the two growing up 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.160 being well off and having success, your dad having success 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.760 in NASCAR, seeing the difference of how you know, not 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.000 to travel because you're a young kid, but how the 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:57.080 sport has evolved, you know, financially, and just how things 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.760 go on compared to when your dad was killing it. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.080 And now you're in a sport being extremely successful. But 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:10.000 it it definitely the venue and the and and the 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.760 the races are a complete event. Now that's another great 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.960 point because you know, obviously my my dad and I 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.320 have have similarities, but you know, the I feel like 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.800 the the way that we have, the way he grew 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.280 up when he was a kid, and the way that 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.600 I have grown up are certainly very different. I Mean, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.720 they didn't have much um as a kid. You know, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.360 he he and his brothers and and his dad. Uh, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.760 they you know pretty much did it all um. And 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.359 NASCAR was at a place to where they could you know, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.919 build cars on their own and they could go to 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.040 the junkyard down the road and and cut parts and 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.679 pieces off of an old wrecked car that was driving 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.679 on the street and go build a race car with it. Um, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.800 you know. And and as time evolved, obviously NASCAR grew. Uh. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:05.280 Dad had a long career and and was able to 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.320 you know, have success over over a long period of time. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:16.000 So um, I'm not sure there's many generations that have 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.760 seen as much change as what he had. I mean, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.920 he's he was born in fifty five, Um, so from 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:28.200 fifty five nine too, you know, and to still kind 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.440 of to see the NASCAR world evolved through that, I'm 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:36.000 not sure anybody will ever see uh that much change 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.479 ever again, which I think is really awesome. I mean 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.560 I feel like that have to be a great privilege, 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.760 uh to to have seen that. But yeah, I mean 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.800 from from my end, I had a much different walk. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:53.000 I mean he um, his success, uh you know provided 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.960 a very a very fortunate childhood for me. What age 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.919 did you start driving a car? Seven? Eight? Yeah? I was, 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.280 I was seven, I mean, and even from that's a 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.879 good point because you know, even even from what I know, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:14.640 I want to so yeah, Rostonfield, they got moo shine 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:20.600 and driving at seven years old. Come on, dog, that's right. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.840 You gotta see it to believe it, I guess, I guess. Um. Yeah, 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.159 but now there's I mean that that's pretty common. Is 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.640 as not as crazy as it might seem, I guess too, 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.200 um to you guys. But yeah, racing go karts and 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.359 and there's a car called quarter midgets and um and 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.679 things that that you can get into. A quarter midget 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.720 is a much quarter size of a bigger car that 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.560 you can step into down the road. Um. But yeah, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.040 the kids at five, six, seven years old racing, you 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:58.840 know what's at that point? I mean, obviously it's not serious. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:04.879 I mean it serious though, because they're behind the gas pedal. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:10.040 That's that's I guess. I guess relatively, you know, as 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:13.520 as the you know, when that's serious. To me here, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.440 I am thinking I'm doing something to carouen just being 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.920 behind bumper cars. Yea. How fast do these quarter mids 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.359 it go? I mean they're they're not very fast. I 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.440 mean probably you know, forty miles an hour or thirty 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.440 he was gonna be relative. You were seven years old 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.760 going forty miles an hour like that to get your 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.919 right in the school zone. You thought you thought you 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.399 were flying, for sure, you thought you were hauling the 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:44.800 mail back back then, hearing just a little bit of 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:51.520 your voice not talking about William. Yeah, how do you 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.639 as an old school you seem you don't seem like 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.640 the time out generation. You seem like yo pop used 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:05.040 to use that belt, right, you just switch? So how 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:11.720 how does an old school, legacy family business, second generation driver, 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.000 how do they really see the eye racers or some 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:22.600 of the racers who they're getting into racing virtually where 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:28.360 you were pushing the car up the hill down the hill. 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.639 You know, I'm I and I'm just I'm I'm being ignorant. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.000 So I'm just gonna say you're driving without gas, you know, 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.880 all of that stuff, you know, getting becoming really um 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:47.000 a student of your car versus a student of the technology. Well, 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.479 I think it's a good point because you know, I 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:55.280 do feel like, uh with you know, my my family 0:22:55.280 --> 0:23:01.360 and kind of how I was raised around the racetrack. Uh, 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.000 I was, you know, kind of pushed to be more 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.080 hands on. Now I'm not sitting here trying to tell 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.560 you I didn't have nothing, and I do feel like 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:14.159 I was kinda fortunate in a new school world to 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.480 have been around a lot of old school racers in 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.760 in a modern time, um, and I'm very thankful for that. 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:24.480 I think I learned a lot of a lot of 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.639 great things, right. And and to your point, you have 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.520 some of these guys coming in who are who are good? Dude. 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:35.560 But I do think that, uh, it made something. It's 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.400 gonna rub some people the wrong way, UM to think that. 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.560 You know, hey, this guy played video games and now 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:43.800 he's getting opportunities at a high level. And I've been 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:48.119 down here grinding at the short track level. Why and 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:50.480 I've spent all this money? Why? Why is that? Why? 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:55.679 How is that fair? Um? And and lifeetting fair? I 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:59.119 guess uh in in general, but it is such a 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.560 different it's at such a different time. But I tried 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:07.560 really hard to keep things simple. I try really hard 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:12.480 to uh have a bit of a I guess old 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:17.520 school mindset and approach in in some ways, uh in 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:21.160 a in a modern time can be can be tough, 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:24.639 and some people might not like that, UM, but I 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.600 feel like that I've just tried to earn the respect 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.880 of my competitors and my peers. And most of those 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.879 people around you are much older than than you. When 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:37.040 when when you come along, when when I came along, 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:38.920 and I feel like I've grown up around people who 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:42.840 are way, way way older than me. We have to 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:45.880 take a break and more than anything, we gotta pay 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:53.359 some bish. You get checked. I love cut to It 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:56.880 and I love it even more when you download us 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.320 and subscribe and you can follow us on social media 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:03.280 to Smithie where where at? That's at? Cut to It 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:08.199 on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:12.320 Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? 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